Concert Theater

Performing Landscapes: Music, Text, Space, Body,
& Design investigates contemporary music-based
performance through the lens of alternative
modalities and non-traditional strategies
emerging from music, theater, movement, and
space. Intended for MFA and upper-level BFA
students desiring to engage in cross-disciplinary
collaboration, the course supports students who
wish to move beyond perceived limitations of
their single disciplines. In addition to
analyzing works of composers who pioneered
cross-disciplinary strategies (such as Mauricio
Kagel, George Crumb, Heiner Goebbels, Gyorgy
Ligeti, and Meredith Monk), students will learn
ways of communicating specific to other
disciplines, fostering a more holistic and
productive collaborative experience. Utilizing
theories, histories and methods of experimental
interdisciplinary processes that reflect a wide
variety of philosophical, political and aesthetic
viewpoints, the course is ideal for interpreters
and creators of new performance who will discover
and personalize new methodologies, leading to the
creation of short works for in-class
presentations, and to developing and refining
larger works-in-progress.